Re: [gentoo-user] Can I get a tip for reading eix output?

2009-06-16 Thread bn
Mike Edenfield ha scritto: >> Which in turn, means? >> m. > > If you're asking what the meaning of the RESTRICT= options are, they're > listed in the man page for ebuild(5), including: Oh, ok, thanks, I was having a cursory look at eix man page but it's written in Martian, as many people are rema

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I get a tip for reading eix output?

2009-06-16 Thread Mike Edenfield
On Tuesday 16 June 2009 14:46:53 bn wrote: Alan McKinnon ha scritto: What do the `!t' entries following the versions available mean? RESTRICT="test" You can find a clue in sub-section "Slots" under main heading "OUTPUT" Which in turn, means? m. If you're asking what the meaning of the RESTR

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I get a tip for reading eix output?

2009-06-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 16 June 2009 14:46:53 bn wrote: > Alan McKinnon ha scritto: > >> What do the `!t' entries following the versions available mean? > > > > RESTRICT="test" > > > > You can find a clue in sub-section "Slots" under main heading "OUTPUT" > > Which in turn, means? > m. Before I answer, did you

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I get a tip for reading eix output?

2009-06-16 Thread bn
Alan McKinnon ha scritto: >> What do the `!t' entries following the versions available mean? > > RESTRICT="test" > > You can find a clue in sub-section "Slots" under main heading "OUTPUT" Which in turn, means? m.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I get a tip for reading eix output?

2009-06-15 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 6/15/2009 8:28 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: Can I get a likely search string for the massive man page of eix to understand all the info contained in its ouput. A quick search on `output' seems to miss it. The eix man page is way too long, and about 90% of it is only useful to the people trying

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I get a tip for reading eix output?

2009-06-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 15 June 2009 14:28:46 Harry Putnam wrote: > Can I get a likely search string for the massive man page of eix to > understand all the info contained in its ouput. eix's man page always seemed to me to break rule #1 of user-interfaces: "Do not expose the underlying implementation in the i

[gentoo-user] Can I get a tip for reading eix output?

2009-06-15 Thread Harry Putnam
Can I get a likely search string for the massive man page of eix to understand all the info contained in its ouput. A quick search on `output' seems to miss it. Things like found in this output: eix ^apr$ * dev-libs/apr Available versions: (1) 1.2.11!t (~)1.2.12!t (~)1.3.0!t 1.3.2!t 1.3